Hi
I have been asked to devise a risk assessment template that identifies sites that need to be audited as high priority and justify why including what factors need to be considered in devising the risk assessment.
Also how am I going to facilitate this audit plan
Suppliers are
Meat cooking plants (cooked and trent sent to another site for slicing)
Air dried meat products plant
Olive suppliers (ph <4)
Olive packing plant (MAP)
Any help with this woul be appreciated thanks
Hi GR,
It's a simple question and important but can result in a very complex answer. USFDA are still trying to do it for FSMA.
Yr OP implies that the risk assessment (RA) should be independent of any data generated in an audit of supplier.
Some official bodies use technical factors such as potentially hazardous foods (PHF) to generate lists of high/low risk foods >> high/low risk suppliers
(in practice, depending on the interpretation of PHF, different lists do not always agree !)
Other bodies "simplify" such as whether finished product is RTE/non-RTE, volume of business, vulnerability of the intended consumer. They then refine audit frequency based on findings.
( eg very crudely : RTE and/or vulnerable and/or very high volume = high risk, otherwise = Low)
As per previous Post, initial requirement is to specify yr criteria for classifying a supplier as high/medium/low risk etc. A large range of possible criteria have been used.
As example more complex, BRC effectively base any supplier priority on a detailed RA of the raw materials (ie BCPA), which necessarily includes a RA of the subsequent process/user. This can get very complicated indeed - for example see this explanative Post/thread and sub-links wherein -
http://www.ifsqn.com...al/#entry100194
(Other methods for BRC also exist as illustrated in some of the sub-links of above URL)
Offhand/crudely, i suspect yr OP list contains L, M (=L?), H, prob.H( unclear)
